Tom Connor and Judi Karsch, both of New Hampshire, announce the engagement of their daughter, Darci Connor, to Dr. Thomas Maresca, son of Richard and Barbara Maresca of Warwick.

The future bride is a graduate of Pilgrim High School and Oregon State University.

The future groom is a graduate of Pilgrim High School and the University of California Berkley. He is employed at the University of Massachusetts Amhurst.

The couple ran into each other while both home visiting family for Thanksgiving three years ago, Tom from North Carolina and Darci from California. A celebration of love and life with a ceremony in the apple orchard at Quonquont Farm in Whately, Mass., will take place September 23, 2012.